Graduate Diploma in Architectural Conservation

Architectural conservation is increasingly relevant to the profession’s future due to the need to preserve cultural heritage and the built environment, address climate change, and promote sustainable building practices. This has created a demand for professionals who can conserve, restore, and rehabilitate historic buildings and promote the reuse and retrofitting of existing structures to reduce embodied energy and carbon emissions associated with new construction.

Architectural conservation can also contribute to economic and social vitality by promoting tourism, cultural heritage, and local identity, creating jobs, and stimulating economic growth. Additionally, it can play a significant role in achieving carbon neutrality through various approaches, such as using renewable energy, energy efficiency measures, and carbon offsetting.

Students can choose relevant courses to not only gain exposure to sustainable heritage principles and policies such as architectural history, conservation approaches, and urban regeneration, but also acquire more advanced skills in policy and management, design in historic urban context, and materials and technology.